The Ship of Fools is drawing nearer to certain oblivion. URL retention is an absurd red herring when placed in the context of what is already known to be in place at the carrier level, and almost certainly much closer to endusers as well.

Some will find comfort in the belief that there’s a meaningful difference between domestic law enforcement and national security cases. Might it be that the black world infrastructure isn’t used for domestic law enforcement? Fools will go to their graves believing this. Unfortunately, we must assume that the state will use (and is using) every tool at its disposal to maintain and expand its power.

I—and many others—have pointed out what’s sitting on the wire. Assumed to be the case by researchers for decades, with Klein/EFF/ATT/NSA, routine, illegal mass surveillance is an indisputable fact. URL retention is but a mere side show in the scheme of things.